Given our decades of experience and proficiency with technology and publishing, General Academic has developed our own College Admissions Tracker.
The Tracker’s dashboard structure mirrors the counseling curriculum: vision and fit, the college list, essays, testing, activities and honors, recommendations, scholarships, financial aid, and applications. At the top of the front page, the student sees a few summary numbers (overall progress, tasks completed, deadlines in the next two weeks, colleges being tracked) above a horizontal timeline marked by year and season, so the full arc of the process stays visible from any other view on the dashboard.
Three panels do most of the day-to-day work.
- Next Up is a short list of what the counselor wants the student focused on this week. A student who could be doing eighteen application-related things at any given moment benefits most from knowing which three matter.
- Important Dates ranks upcoming application, financial aid, and scholarship deadlines by urgency, with enough context that a student can tell a CSS Profile deadline from a Regular Decision deadline without having to look it up.
- Counselor Notes is where the substantive guidance from the most recent session lives: which priority is current, which recommendation needs review, which draft to come back to.
The rest of the dashboard is available when a student wants to drill into a specific area: the full college list, the essay tracker, recommendation status, the scholarship log, the application snapshot. The front page is built around the more practical question of what this particular student should be doing this week.
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